Art that focuses on human figure featured at First Friday event

7:57 PM,
Aug. 30, 2013

"Blaze" by Richard Harvey.

Written by

Sandra Parker

If there's one thing that has always fascinated artists, it's the human body.

Whether it's an ice-age artist carving a figure from a woolly mammoth tusk 40,000 years ago or Picasso painting a triangular head on a square torso, the body still reigns as king.

So says local artist Steve Carpenter, whose ethereal creations of "dancing energy" look like colorful paintings of the cosmos. Nevertheless, he says, his work is "an abstraction of the human form." ...